Has anyone read Rules for Radicals?

[Ragnar]

I keep passing it up on those weekly trips to Barns and Noble (never see it at Half Price Books or I'd buy it used). It's on my list but I can't seem to commit to it. Last trip to B&N yeilded me Leonard Levy's, Origins of the Bill of Rights. Only just started that one.

Wish you luck. The Communist Manifesto is a tough enough slog and it's really just a pamphlet, lol.

Its very interesting that you mention that book because I'm convinced that Marx, along with his fellow Hegallian phillosophers were attempting to create some kind of human religion. What else explains the spiritual tone of that particular book?

I think they were (I say "they" because Marx gets too much credit IMO) trying to replace religion with the same kind of devotion to the State. They even tried hard to brand themselves as scientific thinkers. I do grant that some of the early Statist can at least claim the innocence of ignorance. However, no one post WWII gets a pass from me on belief in communism, totalitarianism etc. Socialist and fascist and the whole Statist gangs are the greediest people of all time.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]